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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:53:42 +0100
From:      Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A smarter mergemaster
Message-ID:  <433CFD16.6060200@ashleymoran.me.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200509301041.10480.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <20050929224548.GB3035@comp.chem.msu.su> <200509301041.10480.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> This work does look neat, but..
> Try etcmerge :)
> It's a bit of a pain to get started with it, but it is a *lot* faster (human 
> input wise) than mergemaster. It only asks you about files that you have 
> modified rather than ones that have been changed by committers (ie does a 3 
> way merge).
> 
> It does have problems handling DB files, but that is usually not a big problem 
> to fix.
> 

I read about etcmerge in BSD Hacks and there's been no going back for 
me.  It seems pretty stable even though it's not been updated for a good 
while.  Is there any chance it will ever make it into the FreeBSD core 
system?


Ashley



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